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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 24/08/2026

Public Service Announcement - these pill bottle timers are fantastic if you're the type of person who takes pills and then forgets if you've taken said pill.

A prescription pill bottle with a special cap that has a timer on it, showing when the bottle was last opened.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 06/03/2026

Learned how to solder on my lunch break. It’s not pretty but I think it’ll hold.

A raspberry Pi Pico with soldered headers

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 05/03/2026

I upgraded my home WiFi and now have these three old google mesh routers. Any idea what I should do with them? Would someone on Facebook marketplace take these? Also do I need to “wipe” them before handing them over?

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 04/03/2026

SaddleBrown is where it's at, unsurprisingly.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 04/03/2026

Can we all agree that this named CSS color is a poor representation of the color brown? More like a BrickRed than a Brown.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 02/03/2026

Vim is the code editor you'll use for the rest of your life.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 01/03/2026

I'm going to code and build my godson a custom birthday present. Any guesses as to what I'm making?

Items from an amazon shopping cart that are arriving tomorrow. Includes a buzzer module, sandisk micro SD card, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH kit, 5V Relay modules, a big red Arcade button, A bubble machine, and a breadboard and jumper wires kit

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 21/02/2026

If you feel like every new AI announcement is the same, you might be right... Also, I spent far too much time recording and syncing this.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 17/02/2026

Happy Lunar New Year! YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE!

Year of the Fire Horse

Happy Chinese New Lear
February 17, 2026

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 09/02/2026

OpenClaw/ClawdBot might be incredibly vulnerable to prompt injection, but it's ruined hacking forever.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/02/2026

Vercel bought a company called Gel and I had to point out the missed opportunity in their press release. Yes, I am a millennial. This is just how my brain works.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 02/02/2026

I made this "ad" for one of Cursor's recent features. It finally solves the terrible problem of knowing CSS.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 29/10/2025

If you missed last week's episode of The Callback, you missed a certified banger, according to my old coworker. He doesn't lie, so you should really check it out.

an iMessage conversation that's one sided:
Cache Money Millionaires taking over for the 99, 2000s
Chrome Alone 2!
Another banger my dude
I’m dying of laughter man
Super appreciated

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 24/10/2025

Causing @zachleat.com to comment this on the video makes it a resounding success.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 18/09/2025

Let's build an interactive keyboard switch component.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 09/08/2025

Modest mouse and Flaming Lips concert.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 04/08/2025

I had never seen this before but I like it! Great vibes indeed.

A flag with white and blue stripes with four red 6-point stars in the center. The flag of chicago

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 04/08/2025

Here's the full hero section from my upcoming Prismic course... this one took the longest out of everything. It has to be *just right*. The loose keycaps are in a group and I just scale the group up to make them fly away. Lots of fun tricks in this one!

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 04/08/2025

I got my dog some dinosaur pjs and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.

A very cute and good dog sitting and looking in the camera while wearing dinosaur pjs

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 01/08/2025

Here's the keycap color changer we're building in my upcoming Prismic course. I kept the animation simpler for this one, but I think it's still pretty fun to play with. Made with Three.js and @gsap-greensock.bsky.social. 3d model by the wonderful @leifs.website

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 31/07/2025

Explosion on scroll. We cover this in the upcoming course. Animating all the switches and keycaps is pretty involved, but worth it for the effect! Three.js, React Three Fiber, GSAP

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 31/07/2025

Yeah mine just stays under my desk folded up like so

A walking pad folded in half under a desk with a laptop on it.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 31/07/2025

For the upcoming keyboard course we needed some product images and @leifs.website came through with some serious fire. All modeled and rendered in Blender. We're using these in a bento box component we build in the course. Please tell him how absolutely gorgeous these are.

A keyboard at an angle with dramatic lighting

A close up of the knob and screen on the keyboard

A single key lit while the rest of the keyboard is dark

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 29/07/2025

If you're making a fun keyboard site you need a fun little loader, right?

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 29/07/2025

Here's a sneak peek of a component from my upcoming YouTube course! I'll give you 5 guesses as to what we're building this site to sell... Stack is Next.js, Prismic, GSAP, React three fiber. Lots of fun 3d interactions in this one - coming soon!

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 21/07/2025

Just ordered a pair of these Nike Gatos. I think they're damn nice and I had to share with someone. Thank you for your attention.

Nike Gato shoes, cream color shoe with a brown sole and navy blue and red Nike swoosh.

Nike Gato shoes, cream color shoe with a brown sole and navy blue and red Nike swoosh. Both shoes at an angle.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 19/06/2025

A Man on the Inside is a heartfelt and delightful little show. You should watch it.

Poster for a man on the inside, with Ted Danson

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 20/01/2025

Alright is there something weird going on with Bluesky lists? I still feel like I don't meet the criteria to be on some of these.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 15/01/2025

New game just dropped: Amazon brand or prescription drug?

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 13/01/2025

Well, I had a good run. I'll never forget the friends I made, the memories we shared, the furry activities and traditions we partook. It really was three of the hours of my life.

"Could not load list. List not found"

(The quoted list has been removed)

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 13/01/2025

Okay to make up for yesterday's slog through AI art slop, I purchased some wall art I know wasn't AI generated. These gorgeous felt pennants I originally spotted back on a trip to Banff. Yoho & Co has a bunch of gorgeous pennants of a ton of American and Canadian states and national parks

A decorative felt pennant with the word ‘Banff’ in stylized lettering, featuring a design of a bear walking in front of mountains and trees, with a red maple leaf below.

A decorative felt pennant featuring the phrase ‘Stay Wild’ in stylized lettering, with a design of a tent, campfire, trees, and a river under a night sky with stars and a crescent moon.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 13/01/2025

Okay I have no idea what I did to deserve this one.

I’ve been added to the “Block Furry Posts” moderation list.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 13/01/2025

I hate carousels, but I love this effect. It's so cool what adding some white space can do for an effect.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 12/01/2025

The work I can find of hers is way weirder than these. I can't find many landscapes or pointillism style flowers, but just so many polkadots. I like them a lot, but don't want to hang AI generated art in my home.

An abstract painting allegedly by Yayoi Kusama

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 12/01/2025

Can someone help me figure out if this art is AI generated? I found a bunch of really cool pieces but they seem AI It says it's a Yayoi Kusama print, but when I dig through museums for her work, there's nothing like these there. www.peardropprints.com/products/yay...

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/01/2025

This is often when I feel my most joyful and child-like. I love sharing things with friends, and I’m definitely guilty of looking over to see if they’re enjoying it.

licotic
adj. anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing—a classic album, a favorite restau-rant, a TV show they're lucky enough to watch for the very first time-which prompts you to continually poll their face waiting for the inevitable rush of awe, only to cringe when you discover all the work's flaws shining through for the very first time.
Old English licode, it pleased [you] + psychotic. Pronounced
"lahy-kot-ic."

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/01/2025

A good bit of memento mori in this one. How am I going to spend the Til?

the Til
n. the reservoir of all possible opportunities still available to you at this point in your life—all the countries you still have the energy to explore, the careers you still have the courage to pursue, the skills you still have time to develop, the relationships you still have the heart to make-like a pail of water you carry around in your head, which starts off feeling like an overwhelming burden but steadily draws down as you get older, splashing gallons over the side every time you take a step.
From the till, a shopkeeper's register filled with unspent change + until.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/01/2025

jouska n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head—a crisp analysis, a devastating come-back, a cathartic heart-to-heart-which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage that feels far more satisfying than the small-ball strategies of everyday life. 💯

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/01/2025

looseleft adj. feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you've gotten to know so well. 😭

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/01/2025

These four already hit hard right off the bat. Enouement especially.

kenopsia: the atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

dès vu: the awareness that this moment will become a
memory.

nodus tollens: the feeling that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore.

énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, seeing how things turn out, but unable to tell your past self.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 08/01/2025

Just picked up The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and damn it’s beautiful. It “defines new words for emotions that we all feel but don’t have the language to express.” I’ll post my favorites in this thread as I go.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 06/01/2025

This needs to be a PSA. This irks me. Another typography irk is when people ALL CAPS script fonts that were clearly not made for it. Like this:

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 05/01/2025

Is this AI generated art? I found this blanket at Walmart. I don’t want to bias you more than I already have. What do you think and what about the picture makes you think that?

A picture of a plush throw blanket with an ape on it sitting in a camping chair

A close up of some part of the art that looks off.

A close up of a laptop that looks off and weird

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 03/01/2025

If you haven't seen it, RRR is an incredibly fun movie. Like you just have a smile on your face damn near the whole time.

The poster for RRR with two men swinging on ropes, locking forearms with fire in the background. It's epic.

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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 31/12/2024

My dog gets so scared of fireworks that I've resorted to thundershirts and earmuffs. They seem to help and he looks adorably ridiculous. Wish him luck tomorrow night.

A cute lil dog with big blue plastic earmuffs on his head. Honestly, they look more like bra cups than earmuffs.

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